TOPIC: Caprinut's 78' Ford Capri 2.3S (V6) - Slow progress...

That's was my old friends MkII Capri with fiberglass vings and skirt, converted to look like a MkIII...
He never got it finished as hhis other half put her foot down and he was forced to sell that one, never know what happend after that...

I like P100, but I don't like Sierra..

My mate owns this one, not stock by any means...
Roof shop, 1 foot wide on each side than stock, 345 rear tires, 350 Chevy V8.
Also a ex Lithuanian car..
I don't like the paint sheme or the Sierra rear lights...

This is how I want mine to look like when finished, just with a front spoiler and the rear spoiler

My frontspoiler are now in fiberglass, but I want to track down one in rubber (option part from Ford, called Ford Motorsport spoiler)

And benith all the bondo crap, my rear spoiler is a genuine rubber spoiler, very rare.
Gonna sand off all that paint to bring the rubber back..

I had my instrument cluster fitted with led bulbs, but still not enough lights.
So the instrument cluster job begins...
Needed a new fuel gauge as mine was defect, this was my donor cluster

My 6 pod cluster before any work started

With the upper half cluster remowed

Then I remowed all the instruments from the cluster

An advice, do not fit stronger bulbs in your instruments, you may end up with burned cluster and bad PCB print card as mine has.
My bulb is fine tho, in the pic you can see a LED type bulb fitted

A while back I was at my LSH and bought a led strip, mine beeing green as I wanted the standard look, I don't like red lights as in BMW or Audi, nor blue as I think that's for emergency rigs only, blue looks too cold for my liking.
These led strips have 60 smd diodes and can be cut every 3 smd for custom lengths

Fitted

Looks good with the instruments back in

Close up

And will look somethink like this in the car...

Testing was done with a 7.4 lipo pack, will be even brighter in car.
Capri has dimmer switch as standard, may have to turn down the power, will see....

And generally enjoyed the Capri ownership
Not a single breakdown, not bad for a car that has not been done much to the last years.

Some pics

Amcar meet and local Capri club event

On our way to the annual Norwegian Capri meet

Nice place on western Norway, 4 hours drive away

At the Capri meet

Show day

Another show, trackday at Rudskogen raceway

Local Ford meet in Kr.sand

Some autumn shots

This winter is major overhaul on cards
Will be fitting a 2.9 v6 12v EFI with ca 250hp
Convert to 5 speed and repair engine bay and paint that area satin black.
Interior will be taken out and the whole cabin will be soundproofed with Fatman sound deadener.
Side and rear skirts will be taken off, as I really hate those

I have allready taken delivery of:
Coilover suspension legs for the front, complete with shocks.
Brake caliper adapter to fit bigger brakes.
Single leaf springs for the rear.
Fatman sound deadener from USA (100cu/ft)

Next winter I will have a full respray as I can't afford it this year.
Wheels will be either some Minilite lookalike or some custom Image from UK.

USA and Canada only got the MkI and MkII ones.
And was branded as Lincoln Mercury Capri, the sexy european as their slogan was called..
A MkIII is basicly a MkII with different front, valance, bonnet and wings, together with other bumpers and rear lights.

As for now it got a 2.3 Cologne V6 with carb..
114HP, don't know the torque tho...